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Mary A. Farley, of Downers Grove, retired Chicago school teacher, died January 24, 2003. Demonstrators Association of Illinois received her remains in the interest of science. A memorial service will be held at a later date.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian author and environmentalist Farley Mowat, a fervent and sometimes controversial writer who sold some 17 million books, has died, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Wednesday. He was 92. Mowat's work introduced millions of readers to the Canadian north, a vast, sparsely populated region few writers had explored in depth. He also campaigned for the need to protect wildlife and strongly opposed over-development by humans. "I feel sorry for...

Farley Inc., which won a takeover battle for control of West Point-Pepperell Inc., extended its $58-a-share, or $1.54 billion, tender offer for the Georgia-based textile firm to midnight March 27. The offer had been scheduled to expire at midnight Friday. Farley, whose businesses include Fruit of the Loom Inc., is putting $230 million of its money into the acquisition.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. - After starting at safety for Notre Dame the last two seasons, Matthias Farley seemed fairly entrenched at the position. So it raised a few eyebrows when coach Brian Kelly announced at the start of spring practice Farley would be switching to nickel cornerback. At first it surprised and flustered Farley, who is playing his third position in four years. Fans will get a chance in Saturday's Blue-Gold scrimmage to see how smooth the latest transition is...

Farley Inc., still tussling to pay the $1.5 billion debt it acquired when it purchased a majority stake in West Point-Pepperell Inc., is being sued by R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. for not paying a $2.5 million printing bill arising from the deal. Claiming a breach of contract, Donnelley filed a lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court asking for the $2.5 million in unpaid financial printing services in connection with Farley's purchase of the West Point, Ga.-based textile company last year.

Wearing a white ball cap cocked to the left as Saturday evening settled upon Notre Dame Stadium, TJ Jones nevertheless had one thing straight: In a week he would be playing Michigan for the fourth time, and he could not imagine a career without barreling into that supercell at least once. "I can't," said Jones, the senior receiver and captain. "The Michigan rivalry has become part of playing at Notre Dame. It's one of those things you look forward to. And I've...

Farley Inc., struggling under a mountain of acquisition-related debt, said Wednesday it sold the assets of its Doehler-Jarvis aluminum die-casting business to an investor group for a package of cash and securities with an indicated value of $135.5 million. The investor group is led by Chicago-based ICM Industries Inc., a manufacturer of powdered metal and other goods for the automotive, construction equipment and capital goods industries. ICM was founded in 1985 by two former Navistar...

Entering her third year as a starter on Maine East's volleyball team, Hannah Farley has high hopes for the 2013 season. The incoming junior plays on a club team in the offseason and quit softball in order to focus on volleyball. “Hannah has taken on a leadership role this summer,” head coach Anne Bezek said. “She is a vocal leader as well as a leader by example and is a very talented outside hitter.” Name: Hannah Farley Age/year in school (incoming): 16/Junior ...

Standard & Poor's Corp. lowered its ratings Tuesday on Farley Inc., which remains strapped by heavy debt in connection with its buyout of West Point-Pepperell Inc. The agency also cut its debt ratings for several Farley-related companies. "Farley Inc. remains in a strained position due to its heavy debt load and the general weakness of some of Farley's operating units. Without new bank financing, or the ability to liquidate assets, it may be unable to meet its public debt interest payment due in...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Some of the Farleys still were being home-schooled and some had moved on, but all were pulled out for a science project of a kind. Falinda Farley had an ultrasound scheduled. Her seven children came along, as did some friends who weren't able to have kids of their own and never had seen a baby in the womb. Kenan, the middle son, took an informal poll among his siblings to see if a third girl or sixth boy was forthcoming. Falinda had seen a bunch of ultrasounds,...

Former State Sen. Bruce Farley, who pleaded guilty to being a ghost-payroller in the Cook County treasurer's office, was sentenced Thursday to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay back the nearly $174,000 prosecutors said he received for a job that required him to do no work. The man who was instructed to put him on the payroll, James Fuglsang, once the chief deputy to the late County Treasurer Edward Rosewell, was sentenced to 24 months and ordered to repay up to...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. - At Charlotte Christian High School, all Matthias Farley wanted to do was not play football. Five siblings passed through those hallways before him, and he would not be another Farley who played basketball, or another Farley who played football. So soccer it was. And soccer was bad. Real bad. Like reduce-your-love-for-the-game-to-a-dust-bunny bad. Farley's football-playing friends, meanwhile, made the state championship. They would tell him how awesome it was. Farley would...

A judge Friday removed the name of Mt. Prospect Village President Gerald "Skip" Farley from the April 1 ballot, forcing the two-term mayor to launch a write-in campaign for re-election. Cook County Circuit Judge Raymond Jagielski upheld an objection by one of Farley's challengers, who argued that Farley's nominating petition should be disqualified because he hadn't numbered the pages. Farley said he won't appeal and instead will devote his energies to waging a write-in campaign for a...

The Worthington Daily Globe is reporting: Forest Park-based Ferrara Pan's Candy Co. has completed its merger with Minnesota's Farley's & Sathers Candy Co. Inc., creating what its believed to be the largest non-chocolate candy company in the United States. The new company will be called Ferrara Candy Co. Inc. and led by Salvatore Ferrara II, chairman and CEO. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Get the full story at dglobe.com

Fruit of the Loom Ltd., one of the best-known brands in apparel manufacturing, announced a corporate shake-up Monday designed to bring its long-sagging business performance in line with its durable name recognition. As the company said that continued production and customer-service difficulties would cause financial results for the rest of the year to fall significantly below analysts' expectations, it announced that Chief Executive Officer William Farley has stepped down and that a...

Michael George "Mike" Farley, passed from this life on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 in Murray, KY at the age of 71 years. Formerly of WI, residing in Buchanan, TN. Beloved husband of Miriam Horner McEwan Farley; dear father of Patty Farley Deigna of Libertyville, IL, Maredith (William)Brennan of Glendale Heights, IL, Melanie Farley of Campbellsport , WI, Brian Farley of Madison, WI and Kevin (Stacie) Farley of Warrenville, IL, and six stepchildren; brother of Clarene Bigsby of Waukesha, WI and...

"There were civil rights demonstrations around me regularly," William H. Farley Jr. recalls about Tuskegee, Ala., where he was raised. "That's when I decided to become involved in social change." A decade later as a Yale University undergraduate, Farley became a key player in an event with social change as the subtext. While passing a building on campus in 1970, Farley said he heard "raucous screaming and hollering coming out of the windows." "I walked into one of the...

Farley hearing delayed: A hearing on an involuntary bankruptcy petition against Farley Inc. was pushed back a week, until Tuesday. As previously reported, Chicago-based Farley was seeking to complete a "prepackaged" plan of Chapter 11 reorganization in time for a Sept. 17 hearing. An attorney for Farley said the hearing was postponed by agreement of all parties.